Aquacity and originality (Bloomsday)
From the “Ithaca” episode of Ulysses.
Chekhov and Joyce
A passage from “Three Years” that presages one in “Eveline.”
James Joyce holiday cards
Utterly distorting a sentence from “The Dead.”
“Kraahraark!” (Bloomsday)
It’s June 16, 1904, and Leopold Bloom is, as he often is, inventing.
“Trumpery insanity”
A startling phrase in the “Oxen of the Sun” episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses: “Trumpery insanity. The phrase, alas, is not political prophecy, and it’s not even of Joyce’s invention.
Ulysses again
What I missed so much of earlier on: the characters’ humanity.
“I always liked poetry”
Molly Bloom thinks: Her husband, a poet? Nah. But what about Stephen Dedalus? From the “Penelope” episode.
Shaving by night
A bit of odd food for thought from the catechitical episode “Ithaca.”
“O tell me where is fancy bread?”
From the “Eumaeus” episode.
The new Bloomusalem
From the “Circe” episode.
“Strange fishes withouten heads”
From the “Oxen of the Sun” episode.
“Longest way round”
From the “Nausicaa” episode.
A catalogue
From the “Cyclops” episode.
“As said before”
From the “Sirens” episode, getting meta.
“It’s for an invalid”
From the “Wandering Rocks” episode. Blazes Boylan is supervising the preparation of a gift basket to be delivered to Molly Bloom, whom he will visit that afternoon.
“Eating plums way up there”
From a wonderful short essay by Fintan O’Toole about reading Ulysses, “The Book That Never Stops Changing.”
“Always meeting ourselves”
From “Scylla and Charybdis.”
“Smart girls writing something”
How can I not post a passage about stationery supplies and a Bloom scheme to sell them?
“ITHACANS VOW PEN IS CHAMP”
From the “Aeolus” episode of Ulysses.
“Your hat is a little crushed”
From the “Hades” episode of Ulysses.
“Before my patience are exhausted”
From the “Lotus-Eaters” episode of Ulysses.
Leopold Bloom, proto-blogger
From the “Calypso” episode of Ulysses.
“Seesoo, hrss, rsseeiss, ooos”
From the “Proteus” episode of Ulysses.
“I paid my way ”
From the “Proteus” episode of Ulysses.
“He himself?”
From “Telemachus,” the opening episode of Ulysses.
“Once upon a time”
One of the great beginnings, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Missing posts
For some reason, two Bloomsday posts today never made it to my RSS, The Old Reader.So just in case, here they are.
How to enjoy Ulysses
From Random House, 1934, an advertisement: “How to enjoy James Joyce’s great novel Ulysses.”
Bloomsday 2022
“Fellows of the right kidney.”
“Like Shakespeare’s”
From James Joyce’s Dubliners.